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#201 Re: Off-topic » Cool Random Internet Stuff » 2018-05-02 11:12:39

Just seeing it: what a nice post, most amusing.. but: You could have posted it a month ago. Maybe it's a bit different in Down-Under?

#202 Off-topic » To leave a very positive comment » 2018-04-10 11:54:48

Andre4freedom
Replies: 1

Hello
Nowhere can I find a place to leave a positive and thumbs-up comment, so I do it here.
Testing Ascii Beta, fresh install and with fine-tuned install options:
- OpenRC
- XFCE4
- lxdm (changed after installation)
- and the necessary tools
Result: I have a very, VERY stable system, working reliably and enabling me to do amazing things that just work! No complaints to make at all. Being a .deb-based distribution gives me the ease to work in my best known ways and resolve problems easily, should they ever occur. Nicest surprise: even minidlna can be found in your repos and it works perfectly well with OpenRC. It seems that the old InitSysV-style init script, found in /etc/init.d is entirely compatible with the OpenRC commands.
Fantastic to have a system that boots, works and shuts down reliably and VERY FAST. No crap clogging the system resources.
You are giving back to the community what it desperately needs: freedom of choice and a good, stable Linux to work on.
I want to thank you for your excellent work and encourage you to follow your path.
Have a good day,
André

PS: is anything new in the crystal-ball about a release date of ASCII stable?

#203 Re: Installation » Devuan Ascii Beta and repositories! » 2018-03-19 15:06:40

Synaptic will not work when started from the xfce menu: the path is wrong...
You can start synaptic either
- as root (even from the menu, or in the shell) or
- gksu synaptic (as an ordinary user with sudo group-membership)

I would do it the old way:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Important: set up the repos first!
BTW: there are ASCII-Beta isos!
There is good documentation in this forum. Find it. Good luck!

#204 Re: News & Announcements » Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta is here! » 2018-02-19 15:02:58

Hello fsmithred and sgage
I can confirm this, in xfce (and Cinnamon), some menu entries do not work: i.e. synaptic. Started from a terminal (gksu synaptic), all goes well.
Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU, to you Devuan-ers, for that fantastic work of yours. I'm especially happy with the implementation of OpenRC. And it's the Debian-like handling which I am grateful for. Devuan ASCII Beta / x86_64 / xfce / Cinnamon.

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